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d I take that as, first of all, something that was obvious in my opinion. But secondly, okay, I will accept that. A little history lesson. I'm not sure it adds or subtracts anything because war is dirty business. So I'm not surprised that CIA-related people are doing awful things. That's not new news. All right. Did you see the deepfake video of Zelensky? So somebody did an AI-generated deepfake…
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So keep an eye on that. I think this whole deepfake thing is just going to be gigantic.
So I continue to be entertained by Bill Maher's conversion to, what would I call it? So he's not becoming right-wing. I don't think that's going to happen. But he seems to be able to see the whole field. And so every Friday he's saying stuff that makes news, at least in Fox News, because he's saying stuff that his team doesn't hear. And I've decided he might be the most dangerous person in America. Well-meaning. I mean his intentions are positive, I'm sure. But he's the only person I know who consistently penetrates the left bubble and tells them what they don't know and haven't heard.
Think about how dangerous that is. Because I don't know anybody else who can do it. I can't do it, right? Can you? Yeah, I can't talk to anybody in the Democrat bubble and have them hear me. I don't have any channel to them. But he does because he started with them and you know audiences tend to stick with you.
So on Friday's show apparently Bill Maher said, quote, so the New York Post got a hold of what was in the computer. Talk about Hunter's laptop. And you know because the New York Post is a Republican paper — that's his description — and the New York Times and the Washington Post are the Democrat papers — again his description. And the Republican paper. And then he goes, Twitter canceled their account, talked about the New York Post. They can't even report the story.
So you see he's being amazed that a true story got canceled from the internet. And he noticed. Now he hasn't noticed all the stuff that's happened, but this one was just too shockingly big and so he's calling it out. And so he's just like, the right-leaning media is pointing out the mainstream media suppressed one of the most important stories of the election cycle.
Now Bill Maher did not go as far as he could have in saying that it probably influenced the election result and therefore one could say the election was rigged and therefore one could say that Trump was right. Although I think he was talking more about vote rigging, which would be different, and nobody's proven that in any scale.
Somebody says Bill Maher needs an ego death. Now I'm pretty sure — I don't know this, I'm speculating — but if Bill Maher has not done mushrooms, mushrooms don't exist. If he hasn't done them I'd be pretty amazed. Pretty amazed. And that's based on not only the lifestyle he promotes but also the fact that he is relatively aware. And that's one of the ways you get there.
So in my opinion Bill Maher has figured out maybe 25 percent of what's happening, maybe 50 percent. But I tweeted at him and I included him in the tweet and I said the most dangerous person in America is Bill Maher because he is capable of penetrating the Democrat bubble and telling them their news sources are fake. And then I said he's figured out about 25 percent of what's happening. He still believes the fine people hoax and the drinking bleach hoax.
Do you see what I did there? All right. Now here's some context. I've been on Bill Maher once and it was before the 2016 election. And I predicted on his show that Trump would win and I explained why based on his persuasive powers. Bill Maher listened to everything I said and did not push back at all, which I thought was unusual because I was saying things clearly supportive of Trump. He's clearly the opposite. And not once did he push back on anything.
Now maybe he thought the persuasion angle wasn't that important or a little off his sweet spot or something. But I will say that if he remembers who I am — I'm guessing he does — if he remembers who I am he would probably remember that on his show I was reasonable and that I sounded like not a crazy right-wing person. And I feel I established at least a little bit of credibility by saying things on his show that didn't get any pushback and were new. They were new for his audience and didn't get pushback. And it was important. It explained what was happening and accurately predicted.
Now if anything I just said is true, which is that I gained at least a little bit of credibility in my small interaction with him on his show, then if he were to see this tweet — and by no means certain, but usually when the blue checks tweet each other I feel like we usually see it. What do you think? You know some people are more active on their social media. I don't think Bill Maher is super active on Twitter. He's a super user but I don't know how many minutes he spends there. And I think he'd probably see it just because I at-ed him. So he'd probably see it.
Now if you were him and you knew that I'd said incredible the same things on the show that nobody even argued with, and you heard me say something that would blow your mind — that the fine people hoax and the drinking bleach hoax are hoaxes — and I'm sure that's the first time he would have heard it in a way that doesn't sound crazy. You may have heard Fox News say it, which doesn't sound credible. You may have heard, I don't know, somebody will say it if he did. But I feel as though there's some chance that I got that message through. I may have slipped the puck past the keeper.
And the reason is because, first of all, because it's Bill Maher and he's open to a competing idea. So if it were not him this wouldn't work at all. Secondly, because the blue checks probably check each other's comments. And thirdly, because the context: I waited until he was already primed to believe that the news is hugely manipulated on his side. Do you see what I did here? I waited until he was primed. While he's talking about his own news sources being illegitimate, he's talking about it. Now while he's talking about his news sources being illegitimate, I give him two things that, coming from me, should just blow the top of his head off if he notices.
Right? I mean I'm not going to assume I'm important enough in the scheme of things that he necessarily is going to even notice. But in theory. So this is sort of an impromptu persuasion lesson. If you can throw a mind thought into somebody who's already in the mode, it's a whole different idea than coming as somebody you're both loaded and ready for an argument. If you're both loaded and ready for an argument, nobody changes their mind. But if you can catch somebody in a vulnerable moment when they've already talked themselves into the point of view that you're promoting, and you're just giving them a little extra of where they already are — because do you know what? People do like confirmation bias of their own opinion. They'll accept that in a moment. That's not changing their mind. That's hard. Changing anybody's mind is really hard work, which is why persuasion is an important topic. It's so hard. If you don't do everything right you don't have a chance.
So I think there's some chance that I planted a seed that would be productive. Here's what I love. In my perfect world Bill Maher will see the full videos of the fine people hoax and the full video of the drinking bleach hoax. And he will realize that the two biggest really messages about Trump were entirely made up. The two biggest ones. And I don't know if that's expecting too much of anybody because it is kind of, you know. So I have a high opinion of Bill Maher's mental, let's say, openness and flexibility. Very different than most people. Very different. But this is a stretch to get somebody to believe this much of a mind is something really basic to the reality just didn't happen. Just never happened. And it's easy to prove. That's the weird part. If it were hard to prove then people could hold on to their assumption. But you just have to play the video. That's it. The entire debun
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k is just like, well let me play the whole video, not the clip that reverses its meaning. Thank you. Well, ladies and gentlemen, those are my prepared remarks for today. No doubt this peak experience is something that will stay with you forever or for several minutes. Is there a topic which I have not covered which you'd like to hear me cover? All right. How do you debunk the "Don't Say Gay"? We…
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